The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir by A. M. Homes
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to cor ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
The Mitfords : Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestse ...Show more
The Mockingbird Next Door - Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Journalists have trekked to Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where she has lived with her sister Alice for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a lo ...Show more
The Modern Explorers by Robin Hanbury-Tenison
$65.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This book profiles thirty-nine modern explorers who have disproved the idea that there is nowhere left to discover and explore. Some are greatly experienced and are celebrated worldwide, while others are young or less well known and just starting to make their mark. Here are challenging and extraordina ...Show more
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is a comprehensive anthology of Nora Ephron at her funniest and most acute, here are her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman; on the importance of food (with favourite recipes), and on the bittersweet reality of growing old. This collection includes extracts from her bestselling nov ...Show more
The Moth: This Is A True Story by Catherine Burns (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. The storytellers knew their craft and bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. The Moth is a n ...Show more
The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War and Everest (Maurice Wilson) by Ed Caesar
$26.00 NZD
Category: Historical Biography
The untold story of Britain's most mysterious mountaineering legend - Maurice Wilson - and his heroic attempt to climb Everest. Alone.In the 1930s, as official government expeditions set their sights on conquering Everest, a little-known World War I veteran conceived his own crazy, beautiful plan. He wo ...Show more
The Motorcycle Diaries : Notes on a Latin American journey ( Movie Tie-In Edition - Out of print) by Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Notes on a Latin American Journey. Now a major motion picture directed by Walter Salles starring Gael Garc
The Museum of Words by Georgia Blain
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Memoir of Language, Writing & Mortality
On a bright spring day in 2015, as Georgia Blain was mowing the lawn, she collapsed on a bed of blossoms, blood frothing at her mouth. Waking up to find herself in the back of an ambulance being rushed to hospital, she tries to answer questions, but is unable to speak. After the shock of a bleak prognos ...Show more